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Aircraft and transport: Southwest Airlines means to fund Houston "Hobby" Airport extension

Houston, USA - 100 million dollars to make it international

The American company Southwest Airlines offered to pay 100 million dollars to invest in the requested improvements to make Houston "Hobby" airport an international hub. Southwest already operates 130 daily flights from the Texan facility ("Hobby" is the company's sixth busiest airport), and the contribution for its improvement it's obviously not of philanthropic nature: the airline means to thwart...

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